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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago

still looking at Debian over 26.04

will be disappointing because Xubuntu really is just that little bit nicer than stock Xfce, but oh well

[-] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago

The main issue I have had with Debian+XFCE is that a high DPI display will not display the login dialog at the same DPI settings as the desktop environment, which is pretty annoying. Everything else so far has just kind of worked.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

As compared to Xubuntu?

I believe Xfce is still on X11 and Wayland is still "experimental" this cycle.

I considered Alpine, but I got actual work to do and I already have enough lib issues with OpenShot. (Even in an AppImage, which should be safe from that shit. Flatpak behaves tho.)

[-] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2 points 7 hours ago

more as someone who has recently installed Debian onto a laptop last month. Honestly last time I used Xubuntu was on a candy G4 tower around 2007.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago

i'm still remarkably happy with fedora's kde on my laptop, but i'm also very content with the current state of wayland (with obvious caveats about use cases and personal idiosyncrasies).

i'm running xfce on a remote ubuntu box at work though, using rdp for connections, and it's, well, fine. lacks some things i like in full DEs, but it's perfectly adequate for the job.

(both beat fucking windows 11 when it comes to being usable for me)

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